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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Thrilled to see this paper finally out! Kyle Jerro and I explore how interactions of idiosyncratic and regular parts of a verb's meaning explain varation in when and how argument alternations arise, but also the limits of that approach in explaining the variation. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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The role of root semantics in determining argument alternations - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

Argument alternations are an empirical mainstay in studying the building blocks of verb meaning and how such meanings link to a verb’s grammatical properties. Event structures are widely adopted for e...

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

UT Linguistics is hiring a temporary faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor of Instruction whose work is on semantics! See the following link for more details: apply.interfolio.com/187891.

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Just ask if you can have it iced. That’ll stop them dead in their tracks. I watched an American at the Manchester airport once ask for iced tea at breakfast, and the waiter said, “Well, we have ice. And we have tea. But we don’t put them together.”

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

We are hiring! Come join us at UT Austin!

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Slightly diminish a band: The Beetles

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Man, I could really go for some shepherd’s pie right now.

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Congrats to @vshirazy.bsky.social for winning a NSF GRFP! Venus is writing a fascinating honors thesis on Farsi complex predicates, and has long been my editorial assistant at Language. She's amazing, and I know she'll excel at her next adventure in the Linguistics PhD program at U. of Chicago!

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I do that regularly, but somehow missed that cue!

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I gardenpathed so hard on this sentence like three times before I realized you weren’t talking about architecture in Helsinki but rather Architecture in Helsinki.

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

All these people having a problem with the ADS word of the year being “rawdog”, wait till they get a load of the word “sucks”!

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Thanks, that helped a bit! A fixture of my childhood, and a cool, unique bit of Longview. We had similar nicknames, and every time we drove past headed to Lake Cherokee (also a place with a complicated history) my dad would tell the only blue joke he ever told: “That’s where Dolly Parton is buried!”

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Also from Longview. Never heard about such things until I went to college and took a class on US history and it was included on a list of cities that experienced race riots. You would have thought that would be a part of history we were all made aware of, but, well, Longview.

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Do it on paper, but several years ago I did a family Christmas gift draw by going back to my 1990s-era pre-linguistics days as a computer programmer and wrote a C program to do the matching. Really, you should do that.

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

Then clearly you should accept it!

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

BTW Stephan Oepen is amazing at spotting stuff like this. If your \baselinestretch is anything less than 1.0 he will notice it.

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

I knew I forgot something before I submitted that

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Oh good so it’s not just me. Maybe we’re all in luck!

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

I have to do cybersecurity training again. I have an idea: UT should send everyone an email with the subject line "CHECK THIS OUT!!1!" and the body is a long, ugly-ass link. If you click it it takes you to the training module and it becomes mandatory. If you don't click it, you don't have to do it.

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Back at UT at last, but it was an honor to spend three weeks at Rochester as the first Ivan A. Sag Fellow! What a fantastic group of faculty and grad students they have! For anyone interested, here're handouts and recordings for the Sag Lectures. sas.rochester.edu/cls/sag/curr...

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Come present your research at the Texas Linguistics Society 2024! It's gonna be lit!

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Beat you to it. My professors used to tell me my handouts were hard to read and I was always like "Whatever, I've been wearing pretty significant glasses since I was 12 so don't tell me about bad eyesight" and then I turned like 43 and I was like "Oh, wait. It gets worse." So I'm a 1up guy now, too.

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Did not have “brain-eating amoebas” on my bingo card.

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Ohio State Linguistics seeks to hire an Assistant Professor in language variation & change or sociolinguistics w/ a specialization in language & race or marginalized languages particularly African American English & language varieties arising through contact. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25772

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Gareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Come and join my department! Penn Linguistics invites applications for a tenure-track position in Syntax at the rank of Assistant Professor. Follow the link for details. apply.interfolio.com/131974

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Being someone who works on language and who edits a journal called Language I really hate the fact that one word I consistently misspell is "language".

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Nay, had I pow'r, I should pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, uproar the universal peace, confound all unity on earth.

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

The Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin is hiring! We are seeking an Assistant or Associate Professor in the Study of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Click the here for details: apply.interfolio.com/131710

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Tomorrow I start my term as Chair of Linguistics at UT Austin, and in preparation I spent this summer retraining myself on email to be faster and more efficient. I'm not perfect at it, but I've gotten a lot better. And tonight I'm proud to say I got my inbox down to 0 for the first time in years.

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Or at least like it used to look.

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

This looks ... a lot like Twitter.

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